Machu Picchu Private Guided Tour from Aguas Calientes

We had a great tour guide Marco! One of the best days of our lives being able to see Machu Picchu with a private guide who was very knowledgeable and knew the perfect places to get our photos taken for great memories of our experience. We hope you get Marco when you book this tour!

Our guide Benny was incredible! You get to see so much of the country side and her customer service was amazing! She took us all over the place to all sorts of ruins and the horses were so well taken care of and were so easy to ride! This is a must if you come to Cusco!

Awesome guide Johnny, Explained the history of the ruins and wonders of it. Highly recommend to have a guide unless you read about it before going..

Our tour guide was Hector. He has a friendly personality. He provided information about the Incas as we go on the tour and we could tell he is very passionate about it. Not just, telling us infos to tick off his list. He is also very accommodating in our photo requests. We were very happy he was our tour guide. With regards to the tour company, it would be great if they also provided an email contact so we could confirm our trip details such as the meeting place. Viator only provided a peruvian phone number to call, which can be difficult since we are from a different country. When we reached machu picchu town, we had our hotel call the tour company to confirm the meeting time.

Our met us the evening before with our tickets and information about the tour. We met at the agreed time the following day and she provided us with additional information that we would not have received if we toured on our own.

Our tour guide, Nelida, was amazing! She met with us at our hotel in Aguas Calientes the night before our tour to go over everything and came to our hotel the next morning to begin the day. She was very knowledgable and when faced with a crowd she would take us aside and show us something off of the main path. She was very polite and offered to take pictures for us, as well. My husband and I highly recommend this tour and felt it was essential to our experience at Machu Picchu.

If you've ever dreamed of going to Machu Picchu and have been putting it off, do it! I am still high from the experience and feel privileged to have gone. After an almost 4-hour train ride from Poroy (outside of Cuzco), we arrived in Aguas Calientes and our tour guide was waiting for us with our names on a sign, easy to spot. Lissette was amazing throughout the entire private tour of the ruins. She hustled to the bus line to get us a better position and faster to the top and entrance to the site. Once inside, she was patient with us climbing to get that famous overlook view that is soon after entering. I was immediately overwhelmed and couldn't believe that after all the efforts to get there, we were actually in Machu Picchu! The site is stunning, intriguing, mysterious, scientific, fortress-like and beautiful all in one. There is so much history and significance to almost every stone, and it is much larger than it looks at first glance. Our tour guide was friendly, patient and very knowledgeable as she answered all of our questions. We never felt rushed throughout the visit and we happened to arrive at a perfect time, at the tail end of the morning entry group and before the afternoon crowds entered. Many times we had areas completely to ourselves. The entire visit was a delight and I highly recommend it with Viator. On a side note, when they speak of altitude sickness, they are not kidding. Cuzco is a beautiful city, but challenging by its thin air. We experienced headaches, shortness of breath and even insomnia! So go prepared to take it easy there. Thank goodness, Machu Picchu is actually 3000 feet LOWER and you can enjoy it easier.

We were very happy with our experience from booking online, to getting an email confirmation, then a personal phone call at the hotel the night before to touch base, and the guide meeting us in the lobby of our hotel on time. She spoke English well and was friendly, knowledgeable, and pleasant to be around. She had everything organized and even offered several times to take pictures of us! :) It was very organized and we had a great time!

We booked a private tour to Machu Picchu so we did not have to worry about the various pieces of the assent or miss the significance of all we were experiencing while there. Our guide Hamilton got it right on all points! He met us at the hotel to make it easy and took us to join a colleague who had been in line with his guests for already 30 minutes. The trip up was easy and swift. Once we were through the lines, Hamilton took us to a comfortable place to sit, listen and imagine Inca life. The pace of the stops was great, the information was rich, the stories were engaging, questions were answered well and humor was interjected nicely. We came to know of his life and his family. We had insights into his views as well as various